HUMILIATE  侮辱 侮

Be IMPOLITE to someone so as to CAUSE that person to FEEL SHAME.
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Hypernym
  • IMPOLITEINTERACT so as to be UNRESTRAINED AND NOT POLITE to OTHERS.
    • INTERACTACT so as to CAUSE ANOTHER TO REACT.
      • ACTMOVE OR NOT MOVE CONFORMING to one's SELF:own DECIDE:decision.
        • MOVECHANGE PLACE OR SITUATION....
See also
  • SHAMESOCIAL EMOTION OF REGRET one's SELF:own FEATURES, ACTS OR ATTITUDES which one BELIEVES to have been BAD.
    • DISGRACEACT OR SITUATION which HUMILIATES the HUMAN who is IN it.
      Old Chinese Criteria
      1. The general word for personally and demonstratively humiliating and insulting a person is wǔ 侮 (ant. lǐ 禮 "treat politely, show proper politeness towards").

      2. Rǔ 辱 stresses in the notion of humiliating insult that of demonstratively inflicting a lasting public disgrace.

      3. Xiū 羞 is occasionally used to refer to reducing someone to personal and intimate feelings of personal shame.

      Modern Chinese Criteria
      恥辱

      恥事

      羞辱

      羞恥

      恥

      辱

      垢

      侮辱

      污辱

      屈辱

      詬恥

      奇恥大辱

      rough draft to BEGIN TO identify synonym group members for analysis, based on CL etc. 18.11.2003. CH ／

      • Traite elementaire des synonymes grecques ( DUFOUR 1910) p. 105

      Words

      辱  rǔ OC: njoɡ MC: ȵi̯ok 41 AttributionsWD

      Rǔ 辱 stresses in the notion of humiliating insult that of demonstratively inflicting a lasting public disgrace.

        Syntactic words
      • nabactpublic humiliation
      • nabeventhumiliation suffered
      • vadVhumiliating yourself> humbly
      • vt+prep+Nmiddle voicehumiliate yourself in> condescend to go to
      • vtoNcausativeCAUSE TO BE PUBLICLY HUMILIATED> expose to public humiliation
      • vtoNN=humanhumiliate publicly; humiliate (by my presence)
      • vtoNpassivebe humiliated
      • vtoNpsychhumiliate (oneself), expose (oneself) to public shame
      侮  wǔ OC: moʔ MC: mi̯o 16 AttributionsWD

      The general word for personally and demonstratively humiliating and insulting a person is wǔ 侮 (ant. lǐ 禮 "treat politely, show proper politeness towards").

        Word relations
      • Ant: 畏/RESPECT Wèi 畏 (ant. xiá 狎 "treat without the proper respect due to someone in high position, treat with improper familiarity") refers to awe-struck respect for a person in authority.

        Syntactic words
      • nabactpassive: humiliation
      • vt+prep+Nto treat someone with disrespect
      • vtoNtreat in a humiliating way, typically publicly
      • vtoNcausativecause others to be impolite to (oneself)
      • vtoNN=personhumiliate and insult; treat with disrespect
      僇  lù OC: ɡ-ruɡ MC: luk
      戮  lù OC: ɡ-ruɡ MC: luk 10 AttributionsWD

        Word relations
      • Assoc: 笑/MOCK Xiào 笑 refers to non-verbalised mockery through sneering.

        Syntactic words
      • nabactbeing humiliated
      • vimiddle voicebe humiliated; allow oneself to be humiliated
      • vtoN+suobe humiliated (by the world) [Probably this should be regarded as an active vt, with a 所 understood. This needs reanalysis.CH]
      • vtoNcausativehumiliate
      • vtoNpassivebe humiliated, be treated without due respect
      忝  tiǎn OC: lʰiimʔ MC: them 4 AttributionsWD
        Syntactic words
      • vtoNarchaic, SHI, SHU: be a disgrace to; humiliate publicly, reduce to public shame, dishonour; disgrace
      狃  niǔ OC: m-luʔ MC: ɳɨu 1 AttributionWD
        Syntactic words
      • vtoNpassivebe treated with overfamiliar disrespect
      輕辱  qīng rǔ OC: kheŋ njoɡ MC: khiɛŋ ȵi̯ok 1 AttributionWD
        Syntactic words
      • VPtoNresultativetreat without serious respect so as to humiliate> treat with insulting nonchalance
      取病  qǔ bìng MC: tshjuX bjaengH OC: skhoʔ bɢraŋsCH 1 AttributionWD
        Syntactic words
      • VPt prep Nask for trouble from N; be the cause of one's humiliation at the hands of NCH
      侵侮  qīn wǔ MC: tshim mjuX OC: skhim moʔCH 1 AttributionWD
        Syntactic words
      • NPab{PRED}passivea an aggressive public humiliationCH
      汙  wù 1 AttributionWD
        Syntactic words
      • vtoNpassivebe humiliatedLZ
      訽  hòu MC: huwH OC: ɡoos 1 AttributionWD
        Syntactic words
      • nabactpublic disgrace; public insultCH
      爾汝  ěr rǔ MC: nyeX nyoX OC: mljelʔ njaʔCH 1 AttributionWD
        Syntactic words
      • NPabdisrespectCH
      欺  qī OC: khɯ MC: khɨ 0 AttributionsWD
        Syntactic words
      • vtoN欺負　humiliate
      黜辱  chù rǔ OC: khrlud njoɡ MC: ʈhʷit ȵi̯ok 0 AttributionsWD
        Syntactic words
      • VPtoNpassiveget denounced and humiliated
        Click here to add pinyin MC:  OC: CH 0 AttributionsWD
        Syntactic words
      • VPt prep Nask for trouble from N; be the cause of one's humiliation at the hands of NCH

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